View
This menu contains commands for controlling the on-screen display of the document.
Print Layout
Displays how the document will look when you print it.
Web Layout
Displays the document as seen in a Web browser. This is useful when you create HTML documents.
HTML Source
Displays the source text of the current HTML document. To view the HTML source of a new document, you must first save the new document as an HTML document.
Toolbars
Opens a submenu to show and hide toolbars. A toolbar contains icons and options that let you quickly access OpenOffice.org commands.
Status Bar
Shows or hides the Status Bar at the bottom edge of the window.
Input Method Status
Shows or hides the Input Method Engine (IME) status window.
Ruler
Shows or hides the horizontal ruler, that you can use to adjust page margins, tab stops, indents, borders, table cells, and to arrange objects on the page. To show the vertical ruler, choose Tools - Options - OpenOffice.org Writer - View, and then select the Vertical ruler check box in the Ruler area.
Text Boundaries
Shows or hides the boundaries of the printable area of a page. The boundary lines are not printed.
Field Shadings
Shows or hides field shadings in your document, including non-breaking spaces, custom hyphens, indexes, and footnotes.
Field Names
Switches the field display between field names and field contents. A check mark indicates that the field names are displayed, and no check mark indicates that field contents are displayed. Some field contents cannot be displayed.
Nonprinting Characters
Shows nonprinting characters in your text, such as paragraph marks, line breaks, tab stops, and spaces.
Hidden Paragraphs
Shows or hides hidden paragraphs. This option only affects the screen display of hidden paragraphs, and not the printing of hidden paragraphs.
Data Sources
Lists the databases that are registered in OpenOffice.org and lets you manage the contents of the databases.
Full Screen
Shows or hides the menus and toolbars in Writer or Calc. To exit the full screen mode, click the Full Screen On/Off button.
Zoom
Index
HTML documents,source text
status bar on/off
IME,showing/hiding
input method window
full screen view
screen, full screen views
complete screen view
views,full screen
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